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Event Comment: Benefit for Jewell, treasurer. Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years. [Hemsted is identified in European Magazine, Aug. 1784, p. 87.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Foote Weston and Shuter in the Shades

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Song: As17840730

Event Comment: Benefit for Parsons. Mainpiece: Never perform'd here

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: Foote Weston and Shuter in the Shades

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Song: As17840730

Monologue: 1784 08 19 Preceding mainpiece A Looking Glass for the Times; or, The Charms of Money by Parsons in the Character of a distress'd Poet

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bannister. Afterpiece: Written by [John] O'Keeffe, Author of The Son-in-Law, Agreeable Surprise, Young Quaker, &c &c. Tickets to be had of Mrs Bannister, No. 6, Great Russel-strcet, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Dance: As17840730

Monologue: 1784 08 20 As 19 Aug. IMITATIONS. As 30 July

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. Mainpiece: Written by Dr Goldsmith. Public Advertiser, 20 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Good naturd Man

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Song: End of Act I of afterpiece Four-and-Twenty Fiddlers all on a Row by Edwin

Monologue: 1784 08 24 End of mainpiece A Description of the Curiosities of the Tomer of London by Edwin, in the Character of a Warden

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Mainpiece [1st time; C 3, by William Hayley. Text in his Plays . . . for a Private Theatre (T. Cadell, 1784). Prologue by George Colman, the elder. Epilogue by Edward Topham (Gazetteer, 13 Sept., which also gives the names of the speakers). The parts are assigned (see 18 Aug.)]: A new Comedy, in Rhyme

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Two Connoisseurs

Performance Comment: Beril-Palmer; Careless-Bannister Jun.; Bijou-Wilson; Cycle-Williamson; Lord Seewell-Aickin; Harry-Riley; Vernish-Parsons; Mrs Bijou-Mrs Webb; Lady Frances-Miss Kemble; Joan-Mrs Love; Lady Harriet-Miss Farren. New Prologue [spoken by Wilson, in the character of Bayes] and Epilogue [spoken by Miss Farren]. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.] hathi.spoken by Wilson, in the character of Bayes] and Epilogue [spoken by Miss Farren]. [These were spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.] hathi.

Afterpiece Title: Foote Weston and Shuter in the Shades

Afterpiece Title: The Genius of Nonsense

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Noble Peasant

Afterpiece Title: Hunt the Slipper

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author of the Farce

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #221 10s. 6d. (201/2/0; 19/13/0; 0/15/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105, with "author's allowance deducted")

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Cast
Role: Gyfford Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Cast
Role: Sandford Actor: R. Palmer
Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #171 5s. (150/7/0; 20/0/6; 0/17/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105, with "author's allowance deducted")

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Cast
Role: Gyfford Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: All the Worlds a Stage

Cast
Role: Miss Bridget Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day

Afterpiece Title: Retaliation

Dance: As17841022

Event Comment: Benefit for the Humane Society. [Prologue by Miles Peter Andrews (European Magazine, Dec. 1784, p. 467).]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpicce, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #147 15s. (116/0/0; 31/7/6; 0/7/6; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Natural Son

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #61 15s. (42/13; 17/12; 1/10; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Natural Son

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Junior

Cast
Role: Spirit Actor: Miss Cranford
Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day

Afterpiece Title: The Magic Cavern

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece]. Receipts: #277 5s. (247/18; 28/0; 1/7; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105, with "author's allowance deducted")

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carmelite

Cast
Role: Gyfford Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Gentle Shepherd

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four o'clock. Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years [acted 15 May 1782]. Afterpiece: Not acted these 5 years [not acted since 25 Mar. 1775]. [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Banquo to Bensley, but "Poor Bensley's illness last night took him off; but on another night he will give and take in the triumph" {Public Advertiser, 4 Feb.). In afterpiece he is assigned to The Guardian. On the Kemble playbill in both cases his name is deleted and MS annotations substitute Hull's.] "Macbeth at Drury-lane will. . . gag the drivellers who, on the failure of Constance [in King John], ventured a sweeping prophecy of condemnation that 'the Siddons never could play Shakespeare.' Would it not have been better to have borrowed Farren, rather than Hull, for Banquo?" (Public Advertiser, 4 Feb.). "'Why,'say some of the critics, 'should Mrs Siddons wear a white dress in her last scene of Lady Macbeth? She is supposed to be asleep, not mad.' What reason except custom can be given for a mad heroine appearing in white we know not [and see DL, 20 Dec. 1782]. Yet there is an obvious reason why a person walking in their sleep should wear a white dress of the loose kind worn by Mrs Siddons ... It [is] the nearest resemblance which theatrical effect will admit, to the common sort of night-dresses" (Public Advertiser, 7 Feb.). Receipts: #346 16s. (198/10/0; 7/2/6; 0/8/6; tickets: 140/15/0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Song: In mainpiece: The Original Music by Matthew Locke, with additional Accompaniments, by Bannister, Dignum, Suett, Chapman, Barrymore, Williames, Wilson, Fawcett; Miss Phillips, Miss Field, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Miss Barnes, Mrs Burnett, Miss Simson, Miss Cranford, Miss Burnett, Mrs Smith, the Miss Stageldoirs, Miss George, Mrs Wrighten. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances, except on 4 Feb.]

Performance Comment: [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances, except on 4 Feb.] hathi.
Event Comment: Benefit for Holman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Event Comment: Benefit for Crescentini

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demetrio

Dance: End of Act I Divertissement [performers not listed, but see17841218]; End of Opera Le Tuteur Trompe, with the Fandango, Sapredella, and Allemande [performers not listed, but see I Jan.]

Song: In Act I a new Air, composed by Sarti, by Crescentini, and a Duet, composed by Bertoni, by Crescentini and Sga Ferrarese; In Act II an entire new Aria and a favourite Song of Handel [singer not listed]

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of the mainpiece, who is named in the Account-Book, but not on the playbill]. Receipts: #162 10s. (115/9; 45/11; 1/10; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Natural Son

Afterpiece Title: Liberty Hall

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author and Composer of the After-Piece. Receipts: #154 17s. (112/14; 41/0; 1/3; tickets: none listed) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Mrs Heidelberg Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: Liberty Hall

Event Comment: Benefit for Nivelon. Tickets, half a guinea each, to be had of Nivelon, No. 80, near the Opera House, Hay-marlcet. Divertissement: Part of the music composed by Barthelemon. [A la Plus Sage has the same plot as La Rosiere de Salency (see 19 Mar. 1782). A synopsis of the action is printed in London Magazine, Mar. 1785, pp. 219-20.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Rivali Delusi

Dance: End of Act I a New Divertissement, in which the 3 different Stiles of Dancing, viz., Serious, Demicharacter and Comic, by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Sg and Sga Angiolini, with a Dance performed in Wooden Shoes by Nivelon, Frederic, Mlle Dorival; End of Opera a new Pastoral Ballet in 2 parts, composed by Gardel Sen., Ballet-master to the French Court, A la Plus Sage; ou, La Vertu Ricompensk, by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Frederic, Sga Angiolini, Zuchelli, Henry, Mme Bithmer, Nivelon, Mlle Dorival

Performance Comment: , Serious, Demicharacter and Comic, by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Sg and Sga Angiolini, with a Dance performed in Wooden Shoes by Nivelon, Frederic, Mlle Dorival; End of Opera a new Pastoral Ballet in 2 parts, composed by Gardel Sen., Ballet-master to the French Court, A la Plus Sage; ou, La Vertu Ricompensk, by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Frederic, Sga Angiolini, Zuchelli, Henry, Mme Bithmer, Nivelon, Mlle Dorival . ou, La Vertu Ricompensk, by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Frederic, Sga Angiolini, Zuchelli, Henry, Mme Bithmer, Nivelon, Mlle Dorival .
Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Younge. Mainpiece: Never performed there. [Miss Orme, who made her 1st appearance on 5 Feb., is identified in Morning Chronicle, 9 Mar.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Matilda

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Event Comment: Benefit for Henderson. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Richard Cumberland. Text, which assigns no parts, 1st published in his Posthumous Dramatic Works, Vol. II (1813), under the title of Alcanor]. Public Advertiser, 5 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Henderson at his house in Buckingham-street, York-buildings

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Arab

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Dance: As17841116

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Bannister. Public Advertiser, 10 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Bannister, No. 29, Bow-street, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: Midas

Performance Comment: As17841213. imitations. End of mainpiece the celebrated Musical Child (from the Pantheon) will perform a Musical Oglio, consisting of various Theatrical and Vocal Imitations [of Miss George, Mrs Bannister, Sga Sestini, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Wells, Edwin (Morning Chronicle, 16 Mar., which also states, without further indentification, that the performer was a young girl)] .
Event Comment: Benefit for Smith. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent Confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four o'clock. Receipts: #287 17s. 6d. (131/4/0; 13/19/6; 0/4/0; tickets: 142/10/0) (charge: #71 8s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton